Wholesale 101

Just when you thought you escaped the insane fee increases of December 2021 and January 2022, eBay dropped a major bombshell today that will go into effect in March 2022 as well as June.  Here's the details:LISTING FEES INCREASE:1. Subtitle listing upgrade fee will increase $0.50.  The increase will apply to items with an auction start price or Buy it Now price up to $150.2. For auction listings, the new fee will be $1.50. (Previously, the fee was $1)3. For fixed price listings, t …

This investigation has become a story that should be a Netflix documentary.  Grab yourself a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and enjoy:PART 1:On January 2nd, 2022 eCommerceBytes posted a short article that questioned if eBay is colluding with Carvana to deceptively change their feedback rating.  Being that I absolutely love investigating potential scams, I began doing my own investigating and more poured out and this simple blog post turned into a crazy multi-part real-life drama …

Yesterday I shared a pretty shocking graph with you, that showed that eBay has lost 20% of it's seller within the past couple years, yet eBay profit is almost at an all-time-high, which leaves one to wonder how losing so many sellers would equate to booming profits.... unless the profits are all related to the remaining 80% being bombarded with fees.  Regardless of the reason, as of November 2021, a giant amount of long-term sellers are calling it quits... and their complaint, ironical …

If you're an eBay seller in 2021 / 2022, you MUST READ this post.I want to start off by showing you a super simple graph that speaks volumes:The graph shown above demonstrates the amount of revenue eBay has generated, by year, broken down to quarters of the year.  Pay close attention to these two specific decreases:In less than 4 months (2014-2015), eBay generated 50% less revenue and since that time it has never reached peak again.  In fact, in 2020 eBay almost hit it's lowest revenue …

eBay has forever claimed that it wants to end sellers being abused by buyers, so this is nothing new, in fact, I was able to quickly locate plenty of sellers posting about eBay abusive buyers dating back to 2014 and even before that.  And, being that we are a couple days away from 2022, clearly eBay has somehow managed to never find a successful way to protect their sellers from verbal abuse, threats of harm, in addition to fraudulent returns and outright feedback extortion, despite en …